Great white sharks are one of the many species found at the Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, 30 miles west of San Francisco. Each fall, between 15 and 50 sharks arrive at the islands.

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Casey, a development editor in New York City for Time Inc., first heard of the Farallon Islands in 1998 when she caught a BBC documentary, "The Great White Shark," on Pyle and Anderson's work.

A 15-foot female great white shark patrols the waters near the Farallon Islands, some 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco. Video by Ron Elliott.

A commercial sea urchin diver and documentary filmmaker’s run-in with a shark bite in the Farallon Islands has been described as an “accident” rather than an attack. Ron Elliott, identified as the man ...

Shark expert likens Point Conception to the Farallon Islands for great white sharks. ... Domeier has spent the past three years researching the adult great white shark population, south of Surf Beach.

Great white sharks sound like your average superhero. ... "On average we document around 40 elephant seal predation events by white sharks at Southeast Farallon Island each season," commented ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) -- A man was rescued Tuesday afternoon after suffering a shark bite near the Farallon Islands west of San Francisco, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. The bite was near his ...

And they have been documented, on occasion, eating white sharks, including in a famous 1997 incident that was filmed off the Farallon Islands. Two years ago, five dead white sharks washed up in ...

In particular, in 2009 the team radio-tagged 17 sharks around Southeast Farallon Island in Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, a marine and wildlife refuge off the coast of California.